Egyptian authorities announced that excavations in the Western Desert uncovered the remnants of an early Coptic city, ...

A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb.

A handprint dating back 4,000 years has been found on a "soul house," a type of ancient Egyptian tomb offering, which will go ...

Raksha Dave, born in 1977, is a Pakistani living in Great Britain who is president of the Council for British Archaeology. She has appeared in British ...

Long before colonial borders, the Kingdom of Kush rose in the Nile Valley conquering Egypt, ruling as pharaohs, and leaving ...

Generations of creatives have looked back to ancient Egypt in their search for art and design inspiration—here are three ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara is the oldest large-scale monumental stone structure in not only Egypt, but the entire world.

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an ...